4.2 Creating a Site-Wide Brand

You can brand your Novell Vibe site to match your corporate brand. When you add a site-wide brand to your Vibe site, the brand is displayed on every Vibe page.

By default, users can create their own brands for their individual workspaces, team workspaces, and folders. When you create a site-wide brand, you can disable this functionality. For more information, see Branding Rules in Step 4.

  1. Sign in to the Vibe site as the Vibe administrator.

  2. Click the Settings icon Add Templates page for a workspace or folder template in the upper right corner of the page, then click the Administration Console icon Add Templates page for a workspace or folder template.

    The Administration page is displayed.

  3. In the System section, click Site Branding.

    The Workspace/Folder Branding dialog box is displayed.

  4. Specify the following information to create your desired brand:

    Use Branding Image: Select this option if you want to use the drop-down list to select an existing image, or click the Browse icon Add Templates page for a workspace or folder template to browse to an image on your computer’s file system.

    Use Advanced Branding: Select this option, then click Advanced if you want to create a brand that includes advanced features in your brand, such as a YouTube video.

    Background Image: Use the drop-down list to select an existing image, or click the Browse icon Add Templates page for a workspace or folder template to browse to an image on your computer’s file system.

    The background image is displayed behind your regular branding.

    Stretch Image: Stretches the image to occupy the entire branding area.

    If you stretch your background image, the image overrides any background color that you have set.

    Background Color: Adds a background color that occupies the entire branding area. To change the background color, click the color name to the right of this field, select the new color, then click OK.

    If you added a background image and stretched the image, the background color is not displayed.

    Text Color: Changes the text color of the workspace name in the upper right corner of the branding area. To change the text color, click the color name to the right of this field, select the new color, then click OK.

    Branding Rules: Select from the following:

    • Display site branding only: Displays only the site-wide branding on all Vibe pages. Vibe users cannot create their own brands for workspaces and folders.

    • Display both site and workspace branding: Enables Vibe users to create their own brands for workspaces and folders. Both the site-wide brand and the workspace or folder brand are displayed.

    • Workspace branding overrides site branding: Enables Vibe users to create their own brands for workspaces and folders. Workspace and folder brands override the site-wide brand.

    Clear branding: Click this option to clear all your current branding selections.

  5. Click OK.

    The Vibe site now displays the brand that you created.

For more information about creating brands in Vibe, see Branding a Folder or Workspace in the Novell Vibe 3.4 Advanced User Guide.